Today i was a bit excited, i was almost finishing building my operating system environment.
Well, look, first i made a little research to look for a tool that can convert .docx to something else(preferently html(optional), open source(mandatory)), ok, i found some, remember that my goal is not use any GUI app or something colselly related to it, i want a command-line tool ! ;)
wv -> deprecated(dont support .docx)
wv2 -> just a library
odf-converter-> need mono, if i install mono i will bring the whole planet of files from internet like java apps does, so, i wont it, i want something native, little and fast.
DocToText -> hmm, i could use, i tried to compile it, saw some #includes missing, didn't had patience to fix basic things, so i gave up on this one.
Then ...
abiword -> i decided to use gentoo normal process to download and install things, i removed every GUI dependency that i didn't want being include in my repository, but unfortunatly i found a spy entering in my secret base, some soldiers with name matching the pattern "gnome", ohh no, my base will be destroyed haha.
Then ...
I got to try the manual process, well, let's check if it really depends that thing, and it did.
But, ohh well, there is me, backing to the big world of 10000000 packages being installed on my system, so i gave up trying to make a little system, that wasn't the first time i couldn't fix that GUI dependencies, the developers of that applications some times forget to think in the command-line guys.
I don't known, ahh well, maybe latter.
Even some of the best(and big) apps (openoffice) didn't the support very well the OpenXML format, and me, thinking in the command-line tools(i'm crazy yaaa i'm).
But, ya, i forgot, as i use the GMAIL(google is nice you can say ;) it convert a lot of formats to html automatically for you see before you download the anex.
So, basically, send for yourself the .docx thing and view in the html.
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